The discovery of a gut-to-brain regulation pathway in flies calls for additional consideration on how certain medications, especially GLP-1 agonists, can be used to treat obesity and diabetes in ...

As the flu season sweeps through homes and classrooms, it’s not just our immune systems bracing for impact. New research ...

Ever wonder why you feel like crying over a pet food commercial one day but can watch a tearjerker movie completely unfazed the next? Or why your weight seems to fluctuate despite eating the same ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioral traits that have made human societies able to thrive ...

Six decades after the first oral contraceptive for women was approved in the United States, University of Minnesota researchers are one step closer to developing a non-hormonal birth control pill for ...

In recent years, a spate of potential male contraceptive options have cropped up. From a hormonal gel that lowers testosterone production to a non-hormonal pill that blocks the creation of vitamin A, ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...